What Roman Emperors Looked In Real Life

Haround Binous, a visual artist from Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, uses facial recognition AI, Photoshop, and historical references to reconstruct ancient Roman busts of venerable emperors back to life in hyper-realistic illustrations.

#1 Philip The Arab

#2 Augustus

#3 Galba

#4 Philip II

#5 Nero

#6 Domitian

#7 Trajan

#8 Caligula

#9 Marcus Aurelius

#10 Gordian III

#11 Claudius Gothicus

#12 Diocletian

#13 Tiberius

#14 Vitellius

#15 Hadrian

#16 Lucius Verus

#17 Commodus

#18 Gordian II

#19 Theodosius I

#20 Claudius

#21 Valerian

#22 Tacitus

#23 Antoninus Pius

#24 Maximinus Thrax

#25 Gordian I

#26 Maximian

#27 Caracalla

#28 Nerva

#29 Titus

#30 Otho